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    Tame & Touchable Station
    Kids!! Here’s your chance to frolic with the fabulously friendly falabellas. Join in the grooming session as you gambol about with these pint-sized horses and find out more about the other animals at Children’s World from our troop of kid-loving volunteer rangers.

    Date: Every Sunday
    Time: 10.00 to 11.30am
    Venue: Animal Land, Children’s World
    Fee: Free (Zoo admission charges apply)

    FF

    Fragile Forest Station
    Creep over for an enchanting escapade with slender stick insects, crinkly caterpillars and other mystifying mind-boggling bugs. Let our forest specialists bring you on a personal Rainforest Walk for a closer peek into the hidden secrets and surprises of the Fragile Forest.

    Date: Every Sunday
    Time: 10.30am to 12.00pm
    Venue: Fragile Forest Entrance
    Fee: Free (Zoo admission charges apply)

    ID

    In Danger Station
    Track our conservation crusaders down at this station and discover all you can about some of the Earth’s most endangered animals. Find out what’s happening to them, and what you can do to help save these compelling creatures and their vulnerable habitats.

    Date: Every Sunday
    Time: 11.30am to 01.00pm
    Venue: Polar Bear enclosure
    Fee: Free (Zoo admission charges apply)

    RR

    Reptile Realm Station
    Slither over to this stop to unearth myths about man-hungry anacondas, 20-metre crocodiles and bloodthirsty cobras and find out why they are now in dire need of our protection and conservation. Let us share with you their astonishing adaptations and secretive lives, tell us your scaly encounters and discover why our world definitely cannot do without these intriguing reptilian residents. If you’re lucky, you might even cross paths with a live python!

    Date: Every Sunday
    Time: 01.00pm to 02.30pm
    Venue: King Cobra Exhibit, Reptile Garden
    Fee: Free (Zoo admission charges apply)

    PP

    Primarily Primates Station
    Swing over here for enthralling encounters with a profusion of peculiar primates. Discover the enchantingly colourful world of monkeys and apes, whose existence in the New and Old World are being threatened by mankind today. Bone up on your primate knowledge as you examine myriad interactive tools, such as skulls, scrapbooks, photographs, pelts and x-rays. You can even compare your handprint to that of an orang utan’s.

    Date: Every Sunday
    Time: 01.45pm to 03.15pm
    Venue: Ethiopian Experience (near the Rock Hydrax enclosure)
    Fee: Free (Zoo admission charges apply)

    AA

    African Adventure Station
    Stalk over to this station where unusual animal specimens will unlock the sensational secrets of prey and predators roaming the amazing African Plains. Tangle with horns and antlers, dabble with dung samples and take the time to stroke some animal skins, from the pristine pelt of a pronking springbok to a fine-haired hippo’s hide. Through our fine collection of skulls, learn about the leopard’s stealth, lion’s might and cheetah’s ability to reach super speeds.

    Date: Every Sunday
    Time: 02.30pm - 04.00pm
    Venue: Cheetah Enclosure, Wild Africa
    Fee: Free (Zoo admission charges apply)

    NS

    Night Safari Station
    Spirit yourself into the nifty, nocturnal world and learn through your heightened senses of sight, smell and touch with the help of preserved specimens, usually sourced right from our grounds! Seek out our free-ranging volunteer rangers who lurk the shadowy trails and they will reveal rare secrets and mesmerising insights into the personalities on each amazing animal of the night, such as the clouded leopard, flying fox and giant flying squirrel.

    Date: Every Friday to Sunday
    Time: 07.30pm to 10.00pm
    Venue: Leopard Trail Ranger Station
    Fee: Free (Night Safari admission charges apply)



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